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XBMC Gets Working Intel VA-API Support

04-06-2010, 04:50 PM

Phoronix: XBMC Gets Working Intel VA-API Support

The popular open-source XBMC media player has had VDPAU support for more than a year now to offload some of the video decoding work during the playback process onto the GPU (primarily NVIDIA GPUs) using this robust Linux/Unix graphics API. However, for graphics hardware / drivers that do not implement NVIDIA's Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix, the XBMC mainline code-base now has working support for VA-API...

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Any chance Fluendo pushes those accelerated bits into the free versions?

I think GStreamer is under LGPL so that means they could add closed bits in, IIRC. However, I don't know if that is what they've done here, and simply pushed their work out to the paying customers first.

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I think GStreamer is under LGPL so that means they could add closed bits in, IIRC.

Well you recall wrong. LGPL means that the library MUST stay open source.
So, GStreamer cna be used in proprietary projects, and proprietary plugins can be written, but the library code is copyleft and must stay LGPL.